BOSSIP interviewed Shahadi Wright Joseph and Melody Hurd about playing sisters in "Them," Amazon's series which follows a black family as they move from North Carolina to Los Angeles during the 1950's. In their new home, the family encounters both supernatural horrors and racial terrorism from their new neighbors.
Deborah Ayorinde stars in the upcoming Amazon horror anthology series "Them" as Livia "Lucky" Emory, a wife and mother who experiences unspeakable terrors during the 1950's, first in the family's home in the South, then after their migration to a white Los Angeles neighborhood where residents are far from welcoming.
BOSSIP's Sr. Content Editor Janeé Bolden spoke with Anika Noni Rose about her role as Ella Mae in "Them," and why it's important that audiences tune in to watch the show, despite all the trauma that's shown. Rose said "Them" deals with the trauma of terrorism, giving a face to it and how it can affect us and change us irrevocably.
BOSSIP spoke with Alison Pill about playing blatantly racist neighbor Betty Wendell in the new Amazon Studios anthology series "Them." Pill spoke about the history of white violence enacted by and on the behalf of white women and how Karens are far from a new phenomenon, citing the murder of Emmett Till as an example.